The designers of Elite: Dangerous went to great lengths to ensure the game’s portrayal of space travel is as authentic as possible. That includes adding the location of where the Voyager 2 would be in the game’s timeline.

The designers of Elite: Dangerous went to great lengths to ensure the game’s portrayal of space travel is as authentic as possible. That includes adding the location of where the Voyager 2 would be in the game’s timeline.

The latest Elite: Dangerous newsletter is available, in which Frontier Developments discusses Alpha phase 3.0, a redesign of the Coriolis space station from the original title, and word that distances between celestial bodies will be correctly scaled when possible due to actual astronomical data being. “To give you an idea we’re currently at 116,000 stars […]

Alpha backers of Elite: Dangerous from Frontier Studios can now play the single-player tester, provided they were one of the ones which pledged at least £200. Other alpha tests will be made available next year as development is completed. A video is below. Thanks, Eurogamer.